Ph.D., Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Southern Mississippi

1995-99

Graduate Research Assistant, Polymer Science, University of Southern Mississippi

1993

B.S., Polymer Science, University of Southern Mississippi

Directs a 40+ member research team that includes 9 graduate students. Published 40 peer-reviewed articles; 80 conference papers and abstracts, and 47 poster presentations; lectured at numerous short courses; and holds 14 U.S. and 3 European patents. Received the American Coatings Show Best Paper Award in 2008.

The World of Surface Coatings is Centered Around the Glass Transition Temperature, But Which One?, Greg Curtzwiler, Mark Early, Diana Gottschalk, Christina Konecki, Robert Peterson, Steven Wand, and James W. Rawlins, Proceedings of the Forty-First International Waterborne, High-Solids, and Powder Coatings Symposium, New Orleans, LA, Feb 2014, 3-34.